Broken Barricades – Ways of Seeing – From Edmonton, Alberta

Broken Barricades is the visual highlight of a month-long exploration of the lives and work of artists with disabilities.

Direct from the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts in Edmonton, Alberta, the Centre’s Lead Artists will exhibit and speak about art production at the margins of the Canadian arts scene.

Opened in 2003, Nina Haggerty provides a place where people with intellectual disabilities explore creativity and creative expression. The Centre supports artists with developmental disabilities working in a variety of disciplines, including: drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, ceramics, and 3D design. Over 100 artists pay a small membership fee in exchange for full access to art materials, studios, and exhibition opportunities in a public gallery.

The Centre is one of many thriving arts hubs located across Canada supporting artists informed by disability issues.  Gallery Gachet is pleased to host this exhibition to demonstrate the breadth of work being produced by disability artists.

Gachet?s own mandate includes providing artists informed by mental health issues with production, presentation, and professional development support. Artists with disabilities are on the outside of Canada?s contemporary arts sector, the arts market, and the arts media.

Note: Closing Reception held Friday, January 25, 5-9pm